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Medal of Honor Recipient

Frank Bois

U.S. Navy · Civil War

MOH-RC-002200Source-based record

The award

Representative medal image: Navy star design with the 1913 blue ribbon. Not a portrait or a photograph of this recipient’s own medal.
Navy Medal of HonorRecorded presentation: 1916

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Medal of Honor

May 27, 1863

Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA

Rank at action
Quartermaster
Service
U.S. Navy
Conflict
Civil War
Unit or command
USS Cincinnati
Presentation date
November 24, 1916

The Citation

Sources ↓
Served as quartermaster on board the U.S.S. Cincinnati during the attack on the Vicksburg batteries and at the time of her sinking, 27 May 1863. Engaging the enemy in a fierce battle, the Cincinnati, amidst an incessant fire of shot and shell, continued to fire her guns to the last, though so penetrated by enemy shellfire that her fate was sealed. Conspicuously cool in making signals throughout the battle, Bois, after all the Cincinnati's staffs had been shot away, succeeded in nailing the flag to the stump of the forestaff to enable this proud ship to go down, "with her colors nailed to the mast."

Sources & record notes

General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.

  1. Frank Bois — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-30

    current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison

Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
Award ID
MOH-AW-002210
Transcription status
Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
Last source check
2026-08-30
Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
17
Entered service at
Northampton, Mass.
Archive transcription SHA-256
2a64d90037c6518810407153b8cc7ca7578d85489dee890ccbb21576ccbfeb5f

Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; rendered current reference profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.

The inherited rank-1 Society candidate was confirmed by substantive comparison of identity, service, rank, action context, and citation; candidate rank or successful rendering alone was not treated as verification. The current profile records USS Cincinnati; the inherited unit field Not documented remains preserved as a source variant. The previously unnormalized action date is controlled as 1863-05-27 from the current authoritative profile. The controlled historical action place is Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA; the complete inherited geocoder value Vicksburg, MS, USA remains preserved in the audit evidence. The current authoritative profile classifies the action under Civil War; the inherited unclassified value remains preserved in the audit record. No underlying General Order was examined, so the exact-order gate remains pending and no General Order verification is claimed.

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